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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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<sect1 id="ch04-updategeneralent">
  <title>Updating general.ent</title>
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  <para>The following elements should be updated in the
    <filename>general.ent</filename> file whenever <emphasis>any</emphasis> change
    (including small typo fixes) is made:
  </para>

  <para><screen>&lt;!ENTITY version "20020429"&gt;
    &lt;!ENTITY releasedate "April 29th, 2002"&gt;</screen>
  </para>

  <para>The two dates must be the same, and the first is in the YYYYMMDD format.
  </para>

  <para>Effectively, you'll only do this if you happen to be the first person on 
   a particular day who made a change.</para>
</sect1>
